join-boy, noun
- Origin:
- Fanakalo, EnglishShow more Probably from Fanakalo, joyin contract (adaptation of English join), with spelling remodelled to the English root + boy (see boy sense 1 a).
offensive
A newly recruited mine-labourer. See also boy sense 1.
1948 O. Walker Kaffirs Are Lively 22Half a dozen reasons can be given why tribal Natives become ‘join-boys’, as recruited miners are called.
1989 B. Godbold Autobiography. 14Groups of blanket-clad ‘join boys’ as they were called, walked for many days to railheads, to entrain for Johannesburg, for employment underground.
A newly recruited mine-labourer.
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